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Monday, February 5, 2018

It’s Monday
February 5, 2018… and I’m betting there are many people in the
greater Philadelphia Area who did not go into work today because the
Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl Last Night against the New
England Patriots… and even though I am not, repeat NOT, an Eagles
Fan… I do feel obligated to do this….

Fly, Eagles Fly!

On The Road To
Victory! (Fight! Fight! Fight!)

Fight, Eagles fight!

Score a touchdown 1,
2, 3! (1! 2! 3!)

Hit 'em low!

Hit 'em high!

And watch our Eagles
fly!

Fly, Eagles Fly!

On The Road To
Victory!

E-A-G-L-E-S!

Eagles!

Okay that said, lets
get to this weeks Doctor Who review, which is Part 2 of Doctor Who:
The War Machines, and this episode first aired July 2, 1966 and saw
the viewership total drop to 4.7 Million, keeping in trend with
previous Doctor Who episodes of being up and down in terms of viewers
at the time.

Under the control of
WOTAN, Dodo goes to bring the Doctor to it marking the first time a
companion is really directly used in a way that could harmed our
favorite Time Lord. WOTAN issues orders to its other minions on who
will live and die, with plans to take over first London, then
Washington and Moscow. How it’s going to get control is via
telephone communications, as scene in the previous episode when Dodo
is called at the night club. Pretty devious and ingenious if you ask
me.

Dodo finds the
Doctor at the night club with Ben and Polly and tries to guide the
Doctor towards some of her fellow mind-controlled minions, but Polly
tags along and prevents this. At the same time Ben encounters a
homeless man who plans to sleep in an empty warehouse… which is
where WOTAN is having his minions begin construction of ‘war
machines’ needed for its plot. Safe to say, the homeless dude
doesn’t live to warn anyone.

The next day Dodo
uses info about an ill-secretary to get Polly away from the Doctor
and gets him to phone Professor Brett who patches the call over to
WOTAN, and the plan to get him undercontrol nearly works if it isn’t
for Sir Charles who gets the Doctor to a chair where the Doctor
shakes off the effects and Dodo’s comment of the Doctor not
receiving instructions get him to realize something is very wrong.
Using a bit of hypnosis, The Doctor puts Dodo to sleep and she is
taken to a country estate to rest… and this is the last we see of
Dodo in Doctor Who.

This entire
situation inspires Polly to go check on Professor Brett and when she
arrives at the Post Office Tower, she realizes something is very
wrong with how everyone is acting. At the same time, Ben comes to the
Doctor looking for Polly, informing him about the homeless man that
was killed and is sent to look for clues, which Ben finds in the
episodes climax where he hears, sees and gets in targeting sights one
of WOTAN’s War Machines.

First, let’s talk
about Dodo’s final episode because let’s face it, the character
is not quite herself and in the long run, this ended up being a theme
for her in a few post-travels stories where she doesn’t quite
remember her time with the Doctor. It’s certainly not a glamorous
departure by any means and one could argue it’s when Dodo meets Ben
in part 1 of the War Machines is the last time we see the real
‘Dodo’. Secondly, WOTAN’s plot is really straight forward with
no messing around, it’s very logical plan to use the phone lines to
take over people’s minds and to get war machines built was quickly
as possible, it makes everything a race against time. Third, The War
Machines themselves kind of seem like more mobile versions of the
Mechonoids in terms of their size, and there is some subtle
influence of the Daleks design as well. Lastly More of Ben and
Polly’s personalities are established, with Polly being shown as
quite kind and concerned while Ben is a bit of a smart ass who won’t
hesitate helping if needed as both got some decent screen time with
The Doctor.

And on that lack of
a bombshell that will do it for this week, coming up in the Basement,
I’ll be reviewing The Devil Lady episode 3 and next week of course
I’ll review Doctor Who: The War Machines Part 3… till then, have
a good one folks

So during my Sunday night broadcast, I was keeping a casual eye on the Super Bowl which saw the Philadelphia Eagles defeat the New England Patriots, now sure I live in the greater Philadelphia area, however I am not an Eagles fan, but it was kind of neat to see a team win their first ever championship... even though the Super Bowl game itself is nothing but a glorified exhibition in the grand scheme of things. I do find it funny that the Flipboard app on my phone had an 'alert' that said the Eagles rallied to defeat the Patirots, except the Eagles were winning 99% of the time.

Now due to the technical issues with my current PC that occured on Friday night, I lost my save file for BlazBlue Continuum Shift, when reinstalling that from Steam, all of my progress was lost. Now I do consider that game completed in that I did stream every single Story Mode aspect of it, but I was working on the arcade mode part of beating it with every character.... and I wasn't in the mood to start over.... now this is the reverse of the problem I have with BlazBlue Chronophantasma, in which I want to stream all of the story mode stuff but I completed that in 2016 and I tried deleted the save files but the game just recreated my progress, so for this game it would be completing the arcade mode with every character to consider it completed.

Which brings me to something I did not realize until after my broadcast was done, in that my Boom Replays were all off by 10 seconds.... meaning I did not get any good clips from tonight. I managed to get some things but not much.